Stanford has extended undergraduate admission offers to the Class of 2019 and announced an increase in financial aid. Now, parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 and typical assets will be expected to pay no Stanford tuition.

Sophie E. Miller, a chemical engineering major at Stanford, is one of 14 Americans “of exceptional ability and outstanding achievement” who have been awarded Churchill Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge in England for one year.

Happy Holidays from all of us in the Stanford Office of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid! Stanford University offices will be closed December 20, 2014 through January 4, 2015. All offices will reopen January 5, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. (Pacific time).

The freshman class is beginning to take shape, with acceptance offers sent to high school students from 47 states and 31 countries. Stanford has sent acceptance letters to 743 high school students who sought admission to the Class of 2019 under the university’s early admission program, the Office of Undergraduate Admission announced today.